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The Battle of Kircholm 1605: How Poland's Winged Hussars Crushed the Swedish Army
In 1605, a Polish-Lithuanian army of just 4,000 men, led by the legendary Hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, faced a Swedish force three times larger near the small town of Kircholm (modern Salaspils in Latvia). Against all odds, the Polish-Lithuanian cavalry—led by the dreaded winged hussars—delivered one of the most devastating defeats in early modern military history. This episode reconstructs the battle in vivid detail: the Swedish deployment of pikemen and musketeers under King Karl IX, the brilliant feigned retreat that lured the Swedes into breaking formation, and the thunderous charge of…
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